Author: Our Little Chateau
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No Sugar Soft Banana Toddler Cookies Recipe
Although we love baking we aren’t really big sugar eaters. I think the biggest fan of sugar in our house is my husband. For this reason it was no surprise to anyone that the baby also doesn’t care for sugar. On birthdays and holidays he doesn’t want cupcakes, cake, sweets, or candy. These cookies are…
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How to Grow Hedou Bok Choy
Hedou Bok Choy is a miniature version of Bok Choy. It is a rare garden plant that we grow in Our Little Chateau. It is a lot of fun to grow and it grows very fast. It is also very low maintenance but can be grown in small containers so it is prefect for filling…
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Blueberry Muffin Recipe
The best part about the middle of May and the beginning of June is blueberry season. We use to go blueberry picking every year which lead to so many wonderful baked good using blueberries. One of those recipes was blueberry muffins. The photo of the blueberry muffins you see here is from when we use…
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How to Grow and Care for Acorn Squash
The photo above is of the last acorn squash plant we grew before we left Canada. We grow it in a raised garden bed that we made ourselves. In the garden bed we had two acorn and two small white pumpkin plants. We made made a trellis out of string an let them grow up…
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Homemade Sushi Ginger Recipe
The more we get settled into our new home the more it seems life slowly goes back to normal for us. One thing that we have started to be able to do again is make our own sushi. It wasn’t easy finding all of the ingredients and sadly one thing we couldn’t find was sushi…
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How to Grow Pumpkin Seedlings from a Store Bought Pumpkins
Pumpkins are a very versatile fruit that is commonly thought to as a vegetable. We often find pumpkins in the grocery store that we cant find seed packets for at the nursery or plant store. We like to try to grow them ourselves when we do find ones that we like at the grocery store.…
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Olive Oil Pancakes Recipe
Pancakes is always a special breakfast here at our little chateau. Everyone loves them but we don’t have them very often. This recipe is a little lighter than then the average pancake recipe which have buttermilk, heavy cream, butter, and sometimes even lard in the recipe. You can even substitute with skim milk for this…
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How to Grow Sweet Potatoes in Containers
We have grown sweet potatoes in large and small containers and it can be done. The only difference between the two would be that with small containers you end up with small sweet potatoes. The photo above is from when we grow sweet potatoes in a hanging basket outside. The following information is about how…
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Garlic Herb Roasted Cabbage Steaks Recipe
We generally make this recipe when we have half a head of cabbage left over from the day before even though the recipe calls for a whole head of cabbage. The recipe doesn’t change just the amount of cabbage. We love to serve this to our guest and get a lot of comments about how…
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Growing Tomatillos In Containers
The photo above is of one of tomatillo plants we grew at our little chateau in Canada. Tomatillos like hot weather and lots of room to grow. We sprouted them in doors and put them in the green house in buckets durning the summer. Durning hottest part of the summer we sat them outside and…